10 Reasons To wear the Burkha

[poliphilo]

10 Reasons To Wear The Burkha

1.  To honour your parents.
2.  To piss your parents off
3.  To honour men
4.  To piss men off
5.  To make a political point
6.  To make a religious point
7.  Because you are a subjugated housefrau
8.  Because you are a radical feminist
9.  To disappear
10.To stand out.

Comments

[chiller.livejournal.com]

I love this.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

Very perceptive! You should have been a journo.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

I used to work for a couple that had lived in Saudi -- "the Magic Kingdom" -- for many years. Politically, both were very progressive, yet their views on life under sharia law, at least in the kingdom itself, were always surprising. They did not see the systemitized oppression that we in the West are told to see.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Nice list - only I'm a bit unsure about No.3. I'm all in favour of anyone who wants to being able to wear a burkha, as you know, but I don't see that a garment predicated on the assumption that men can't be expected to exercise a modicum of self-control exactly honours them (though it clearly pisses some of them off).

[wlotus.livejournal.com]

As personal as the person.

[internet-sampo.livejournal.com]

11. As a form of masochism.



12. You're suicidal

http://www.dubaiforums.com/dubai-politics-talk/burkha-freak-kart-accident-t41150.html

[ex-redrain.livejournal.com]

11. Because you choose to.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

You forgot #11:

So you can pull an automatic rifle out from under it and shoot a policeman.

Which happened here in Philly. The guy then disburqa'd himself in the getaway car but they still caught him. And he wasn't even a Muslim.

[sunfell.livejournal.com]

Burqa or Niquab? Hijab or Chador?

Lots of people get those mixed up. The Burqa is the full over-the-head body cloak worn in Afghanistan with the screen for the face. The niquab is the face-covering veil that only leaves the eye(s) exposed.

The hijab is the headscarf, and the chador is the robe-like overcoat with long sleeves.

(Sorry. I want people to get these things straight. It's one of my picky-nits.)

[endlessrarities.livejournal.com]

Oh, very good!!

[red-girl-42.livejournal.com]

I like this.

Recently I was thinking about American outrage over the Burkha while looking at dress codes for my son's school. Although I think the Burkha is excessively restrictive and, as a claustrophobe, I'd rather slit my wrists than wear one, I also think we fail to see that we also have legal requirements about what you have to cover up here. I can't walk out in public naked, or bare chested. I will get arrested. Why? Why is it okay to say I'm not allowed to expose my breasts, but it's horrifying to say that a women can't expose her hair? Qualitatively what is the difference?

I do recognize the element of sexism in Sharia law, and I certainly think it's taken way to extremes, but still, we DO have notions about what is "inappropriate" to wear, and we are more restrictive of women than men in that as well.

[aellia.livejournal.com]

I feel sorry for their children who miss out on their mother's facial expression.
I also feel sorry for other children who see them in the street for the first time.
Pretty scary,I think